Punish the person, not the whiskey

As Tennesee authorities ponder the fate of hundreds of vintage bottles of Jack Daniel’s, some nearing 100 years in age, and many with unbroken seals, the headline of this post comes from an empassioned British Columbia blogger named Kyle MacDonald, who is a Jack fan. It appears TN officials want to dump the bottles, because

it was being sold by someone without a license.

Specifically, the bottles were designated for overseas sale.1

I think Kyle has it right.  Instead of dumping the bottles, couldn’t they be auctioned to collectors?  The value of the collection is estimated at $1 million, with the 1914 bottle, valued by collectors at $10,000 on it own, is destined to be dumped.

-k-

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1 This article calls it a “bootlegging operation”. Bootlegging is what Junior Johnson did; this looks more like theft to me.

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